Song Yi sighed. "Have the White Tiger Division's minister take some people over and see what's going on with this Evergreen."
After receiving the message, Gou Xiangwang rubbed his eyes, set down the seedlings in his hands, and sat on the field ridge, propping up his chin as he stared into space.
"Chen Ze, Sun Cheng... tell me, how are these six kids so good at running off?"
Chen Ze and Sun Cheng wore wooden expressions.
Kids?
Never mind the others-Su Wuwei alone was older than everyone in their entire Four Symbols Department put together.
Gou Xiangwang sighed. "Well, we'd better go have a look. Where's Zhang Yuanjing?"
"You bastard, you still remember me? Hurry up and untie me!"
Tied to a tree, Zhang Yuanjing kicked his feet.
Gou Xiangwang picked his ear. "What little dog is barking over there? What's all that gibberish?"
Chen Ze held his forehead. "Minister, stop messing around. None of us can handle Brother Jing when he's angry."
Gou Xiangwang roared with laughter. "Impossible. Your Brother Jing's codename is just Lou Jingou. He's not an actual dog. He won't get rabies."
Zhang Yuanjing gritted his teeth and exerted his waist. A cracking sound came from behind him, as though something were tearing apart.
Chen Ze hurriedly untied Zhang Yuanjing. "Don't, Brother Jing! The tree's innocent. You can't uproot the tree we planted."
Zhang Yuanjing rubbed his arms, muttering under his breath.
"If I hadn't advanced so slowly back then, I should've been the White Tiger Division's minister. The Lou Jingou position was meant for that bastard Gou in the first place, but then..."
He glared irritably at his good friend.
But then, after returning from the depths of the Forbidden Zone, this bastard had gone straight to the eighth tier and stubbornly refused to say